Pros
You work with some of the smartest and most dedicated architects, product managers, product owners, developers, QA leads, and QA testers, Everyone wants to make projects successful. Even though across the enterprise (surface, air, retail, clearance) programs are delivered in SAFe, scrum agile, and waterfall, the teams understand and really work to coordinate the critical path items crossing the finish line together and on schedule.
Cons
The culture has shifted since Fred Smith's passing from People-Service-Profit to Profit- Service-People, which is not unexpected with the changes in the industry from the pandemic feast to the post-pandemic near famine. There is quite a bit of churn, project priorities shift often, and there is a constant is sense of urgency. Executives will seemingly capriciously establish new priorities without awareness of resource availability, team capacity, conflicting priorities, and massiveness of technical commitment across the portfolios - all the while expecting the agility of a boutique ecommerce startup.